“He Received Thirty-seven Cents a Day”

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By the time he had reached his seventeenth year he had attained the physical proportions of a full-grown man. He was employed to assist James Taylor in the management of a ferry-boat across the Ohio river near the mouth of Anderson’s creek, but was not allowed a man’s wages for the work. He received thirty-seven cents a day for what he afterwards told me was the roughest work a young man could be made to do. 

By William H. Herndon,Jesse W. Weik  “Herndon’s Lincoln: A True Story of a Great Life”  Herndon-045-025-19 

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